Facebook buys fb.com, to be used in upcoming email service?

It’s no secret that Facebook will be holding another media event on Monday, November 15th. It is widely thought, and has been reported, that the social networking giant will be launching its own web-based email service; purportedly code-named “Project Titan.” This got us thinking, how will Facebook differentiate its employees, who currently use facebook.com email addresses, from its 500 million users? How about this: fb.com.

In doing a little digging we found that MarkMonitor, a company whose sole purpose is to facilitate online and enterprise brand protection, is listed as the registrar of the domain fb.com. According to the available information, records for said domain were last updated on September 8th of this year. MarkMonitor manages online assets for company’s such as Nokia, UBS, and — according to this eWeek article from 2009 — Facebook.

It’s all a little speculative, but considering: MarkMonitor is the listed registrar of the fb.com domain, they have a working relationship with Facebook, and the social networking giant is in the market for a new (preferable shorter) domain name… all the pieces are there. And we’ll find out for sure on Monday.

Facebook is for those that have no lives, or kids. Who the hell cares that you just ate breakfast, farted, and you reached a high score on Farmville?

mjrtom

you are thinking of twitter. fb kinda helps me keep in touch with my friends on the other side of the city/state/country/world. pretty neat site. check it out sometime.

Anonymous

Waste of time and energy really. But hey, whatever works for you…

http://www.facebook.com/kickitwithkyle Kyle Phillips

Yeah, from living in 5 different states from the east to west coast and from moving around a lot, it’s hard to keep in contact with all the family and friends. Especially when you have a life while working and attending college. Facebook helps you with just that. Extremely helpful.

Donny

Nefan65,

You just described Twitter perfectly.

Anonymous

Twitter is the same, but also adds in links to Japanese porn sites…

Parik

i really want a competitor to Google. google is becoming evil day by day. facebook is the only portal which can compete against it. Go Facebook Go,we are behind you!

mjrtom

haha you want fb to save you from google?? what the f*ck is wrong with you?

DTest5477

I refuse to use a facebook email! Mainly because it’s too closely tied into the Facebook brand. I don’t want everyone who gets an email from me to look up my profile and try to friend me…..(Facebook’s evil master plan).

Sorry but not for me.

John

great. now everytime facebook implements a new feature in their e-mail, i’m going to have to dig into the ridiculously designed privacy options to turn it off

pass.

Anonymous

Facebook is so lackadaisical about users’ privacy, I’d really hate to see how much data mining they’d do out of your facebook email account, and then sell the information to others. I’m also concerned about how secure it really is.

Thanks, but no thanks, Facebook. I’ll pass.

Fuckerberg

Awesome! Will all my e-mails and contacts end up in the public domain because Facebook decides to change the layout of their new e-mail client and their privacy policy while they’re at it?

http://twitter.com/tarund TarunD

I don’t know why everyone is complaining about this. I’m positive that Facebook won’t push this onto users and provide an opt-in/opt-out option. And even if they don’t, then just leave Facebook. No one is forcing you to be on there.

There is so much complaining about Facebook not doing this, not doing that when its just easy to get off Facebook and still use phone, email and texting to keep in touch with your family and friends. I was so tired of people constantly complaining on Facebook that I dropped it about 2 weeks ago and I don’t miss it at all.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

i’m still hoping they will tell everyone why facebook is really needed in todays world.

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Me

How is it a waste of time to keep in touch with old friends, classmates etc that are in another country or are in different areas that’s you don’t see or hear from all the time..how is that a waste of time. And people that use fb don’t have lives? That’s has to be the most stupid comment I’ve seen..don’t like it then don’t use it, don’t comment on it..those type comments come from little 15 year old with no friends and then now “no life” can truly come into play..cheers